The FrOSCon event is a yearly conference held at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Germany. This year's event is being held August 20th and 21st and they've just released the schedule for this year's event.

Included in the list of sessions are topics like:

Mailing list project management

Openstack deployment

Behavior-driven development

Using git for version control

MySQL performance tuning

Using Ant for application build and deployment

Best practices for creating high load websites

Test=driven development

You can see the complete list of the topics and speakers here as well as information on other events, iCalendar links for reminders and an XML of the sessions.

In this new post to the QaFoo blog, there's a reminder about the the Call for Papers for this year's FrOSCon being open, including the need for proposals for the PHP@FrOSCon room.

Yes, it's that time of the year again, where the call for papers for PHP@FrOSCon takes place. As in the past 5 instances of this amazing event, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund - in cooperation with other user groups e.g. from Cologne - will organize the PHP@FrOSCon project room with a dedicated session program. And it's time to propose your talks for this now, since the CFP will end on May 23rd.

The post also includes a summary of the FrOSCon event for those than haven't been to one before - both about the actual conference and the social aspect of it all. If you'd like more information on the conference itself, go over to the official conference site.

The sixth Free and Open Source Software Conference in Sankt Augustin, near Bonn, will take place on August, 20th and 21st 2011. We are looking for submissions in order to again have a comprehensive and interesting program. You can find all you need to know at http://www.froscon.de/en/program/call-for-papers.html. You can find the interface for submitting talks here. This year, we test a new system for the submissions. [...] The deadline for submissions is May, 23rd 2011.

They're looking for sessions that cover a wide range of free and open source software topics such as: operating systems, development, security, legal issues and education. They're particularly interested in topics surrounding devops, desktop innovation and how projects are "finding new blood" to help them thrive.